According to that link your follower doesnt die - I'll admit that not paying 50k gold to resurrect my follower is annoying but should death be at least a bit punative?
Anyone in Beta that can offer some insight on what (if anything) happens to your follower when you die? Is there any real penalty at all to dying in softcore? I think its interesting that your follower continues to fight on - would be awesome to run back to where you died to find your follower still putting up the good fight instead of immediately keeling over dead from grief at your passing.
When your follower dies, he despawns temporarily. He comes back though on his own with full health again.
From what I have noticed, there's no penalty, except that he's missing for a few seconds. He's only died once for me though.
I haven't noticed them staying alive when I die, but I release fairly quickly. I don't die often either, especially with the follower. That's weird though if they stay alive? Could you just die, and have them attacking whatever forever and ever until it dies? Seems weird, unless, if when you're already dead and they die, they actually don't come back.
When your follower dies, he despawns temporarily. He comes back though on his own with full health again.
From what I have noticed, there's no penalty, except that he's missing for a few seconds. He's only died once for me though.
I haven't noticed them staying alive when I die, but I release fairly quickly. I don't die often either, especially with the follower. That's weird though if they stay alive? Could you just die, and have them attacking whatever forever and ever until it dies? Seems weird, unless, if when you're already dead and they die, they actually don't come back.
I'm really torn on this one - having your merc in D2 get cursed and die to an archer in less than a second (hell)necessitating a trip to town was annoying because it was basically unavoidable - but if I teleport into a pack or bite off more than I can chew and he dies and I narrowly escape it seems to me (IMHO) that there should be a penalty.
I'm not sure, but watching a couple of Beta feeds it appears you can, or could, use this in softcore to beat anything. When the player dies you just let your follower keep getting back up until he kills whatever you were fighting. I'm not 100% sure this is actually how it works as I can't test it myself, but it appears that way to me.
I'm not sure, but watching a couple of Beta feeds it appears you can, or could, use this in softcore to beat anything. When the player dies you just let your follower keep getting back up until he kills whatever you were fighting. I'm not 100% sure this is actually how it works as I can't test it myself, but it appears that way to me.
Obviously, in Hardcore, this won't be an issue.
Yeah in HC you'd already have smacked your keyboard around.
I'm sure if people are abusing the immortal merc proc they'll fix it but it does certainly scream "Abuse Me!" right now.
I'm not sure, but watching a couple of Beta feeds it appears you can, or could, use this in softcore to beat anything. When the player dies you just let your follower keep getting back up until he kills whatever you were fighting. I'm not 100% sure this is actually how it works as I can't test it myself, but it appears that way to me.
Obviously, in Hardcore, this won't be an issue.
You are auto-released after a short duration (1-2 minutes) and will appear back in town.
I'm not sure, but watching a couple of Beta feeds it appears you can, or could, use this in softcore to beat anything. When the player dies you just let your follower keep getting back up until he kills whatever you were fighting. I'm not 100% sure this is actually how it works as I can't test it myself, but it appears that way to me.
Obviously, in Hardcore, this won't be an issue.
I can't imagine they would let this happen... easy enough to make it so that if no players are alive (or if the player hiring the follower is dead), the follower stays down. I kind of get it that the follower doesn't immediately despawn on player death, but it doesn't make sense (to me) for them to keep getting up.
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According to that link your follower doesnt die - I'll admit that not paying 50k gold to resurrect my follower is annoying but should death be at least a bit punative?
Anyone in Beta that can offer some insight on what (if anything) happens to your follower when you die? Is there any real penalty at all to dying in softcore? I think its interesting that your follower continues to fight on - would be awesome to run back to where you died to find your follower still putting up the good fight instead of immediately keeling over dead from grief at your passing.
From what I have noticed, there's no penalty, except that he's missing for a few seconds. He's only died once for me though.
I haven't noticed them staying alive when I die, but I release fairly quickly. I don't die often either, especially with the follower. That's weird though if they stay alive? Could you just die, and have them attacking whatever forever and ever until it dies? Seems weird, unless, if when you're already dead and they die, they actually don't come back.
I'm really torn on this one - having your merc in D2 get cursed and die to an archer in less than a second (hell)necessitating a trip to town was annoying because it was basically unavoidable - but if I teleport into a pack or bite off more than I can chew and he dies and I narrowly escape it seems to me (IMHO) that there should be a penalty.
Obviously, in Hardcore, this won't be an issue.
Yeah in HC you'd already have smacked your keyboard around.
I'm sure if people are abusing the immortal merc proc they'll fix it but it does certainly scream "Abuse Me!" right now.
I can't imagine they would let this happen... easy enough to make it so that if no players are alive (or if the player hiring the follower is dead), the follower stays down. I kind of get it that the follower doesn't immediately despawn on player death, but it doesn't make sense (to me) for them to keep getting up.